In an analog era, newspapers and magazines provided much of the essential HIV/AIDS reporting in the United States by disseminating updates on the evolving medical consensus that shaped an emergent pandemic politics. Among the popular magazines of the 1980s, Playboy ...
If your HIV meds are working well without any significant side effects or issues — that’s great! But if you are suffering from side effects or struggling with adherence, it’s typically safe to switch from one HIV regimen to another. ...
JD Davids has long played an important and visible role in the HIV response. He continues to do so today, working at the center of many intersecting issues, including chronic illness, social justice and — as the founder of Strategies ...
“What do you like about your body?” That’s typically one of the first questions that therapist, life coach, author, PrEP promoter, and longtime HIV activist Damon L. Jacobs asks his guests on his YouTube show, “Tub Talks With Damon L. ...
“Oh, I have a study that you’re going to join,” my doctor, Lisa Sterman, MD, MPH, said to me almost flippantly. It was August 27, 2020, and I had gone to see her in San Francisco for my regular checkup. ...
By now we’ve all heard the statistics: 50% of people living with HIV (PLWH) are overthe age of 50, and by 2030 it will be 70%. When we talk about HIV and aging it always tends to sound like a ...
Over the past six weeks, Ukraine has become the focal point of international attention as it pushes back on Russian military aggression while enduring the hardships that war inflicts on combatants and civilians. In the images depicting the effects of ...
As a woman, I know what it feels like to be invisible. As a Black woman that feeling is sometimes intensified. It gets juxtaposed with occasionally being the person everyone is looking at, but not really seeing. In a time of ...
At the height of their 1980s popularity, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were television evangelist royalty, hosting multiple shows and raking in cash from their on-air collection plates. Tammy Faye, however, also had an expansive view of love and acceptance, ...
In 1981, a few activists sounded the alarm on a looming health catastrophe, but most people looked the other way — just as they did in 2020. Something was killing us gay men in 1981 and no one knew what ...